It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. One of America’s most famous poets, Langston Hughes was a key ...

Inspirational poems are like love poems written for life itself. Ahead ... Is but a passing stain. This is a short poem with immeasurable depth. In “War,” Leslie Coulson writes about our ...

A walk in the many wooded areas around the Lowcountry and across South Carolina can be a renewing experience for elders and a ...

This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin: When you buy through links on kottke.org, I may earn an affiliate commission. Thanks for supporting the site! They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean ...

RVA Magazine launches Writer’s Block, a new Sunday series spotlighting poetry, fiction, and essays from writers across ...

I agreed with him. “These are snapshot poems,” I told him. “They are glimpses of life to save and re-savor. Just as we keep photo albums to revisit favorite moments, we often write poems as ...

I’ll pick a short one – Catullus ... which is that I am not naturally drawn to love poems, but rather to poems about love gone wrong (I doubt I’m alone in this). Something in me resists ...

Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs ...